Attention: Residents of the Washington, DC, area. Remember that plague of exploding manholes we had in Georgetown that would send manhole covers flying 50 feet in the air? Well, the same thing happened in Bethesda last night. Sometime around 1 a.m., one blew near the intersection of Cordell and Woodmont. Smoke kept pouring out of the manhole, emanating from a fire below the ground. The manhole cover was on the street, broken into two halves.

But Pepco says it will take care of the problem. And we all have faith in Pepco, don't we?